Quadro K3100M and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro K3100M

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

N15E-Q1-A2

Tahiti

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2013

January 2013

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

925 MHz

Core clock speed

706 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,084 gflops

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

45.18

103.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Display Port

1.2

-

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5

5.1

Vulkan

+

1.2.131

3D Vision Pro

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

nView Display Management

+

-

Optimus

+

-